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SPORTS

AND AFRIJA

завору

WILD SPORTS

IN

EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA.

ILLUSTRATED BY

DRAWINGS TAKEN FROM NATURE.

BY

LE-COLONEL E. NAPIER,

66

(LATE 46th REGIMENT,)

AUTHOR OF SCENES AND SPORTS IN FOREIGN LANDS,"

"EXCURSIONS ALONG THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN,"

66 REMINISCENCES OF SYRIA," ETC.

"Still can my soul in Fancy's mirror view
Deeds glorious once, recall the joyous scene
In all its splendours deck'd, o'er the full bowl
Recount my triumphs past, urge others on
With hand and voice, and point the winding way:
Pleased with that social sweet garrulity
The poor disbanded Veteran's sole delight!"

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HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

T38535

CP 22/8/84

DEDICATION.

ΤΟ

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE, K.G.

&c. &c. &c.

SIR,-As a Soldier and Sportsman, I feel proud at being permitted the privilege of inscribing the following pages,-of however unpretending a nature they may otherwise be,to one so devoted to the noble profession of Arms, to so bold and staunch a votary of

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Nimrod, as Your Royal Highness; who, I have no doubt, will—when opportunity offers—feel as much at home in the field of glory, as in the mimic warfare of the chase; and should

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